It was quiet in church this morning – almost disconcertingly so.
Many people were away, some on holiday and seemingly everyone and his dog at CLAN, and the church was somewhat threadbare as a result. Low attendance, music consisting only of a piano, and awkward silences at the start of the service. I can’t help thinking it was probably the closest St Silas has ever come to being a proper episcopal church.
Things could have been even more different this morning, however, had someone not pointed out to me while I was on welcome duty that there were some Jehovah’s Witness material on one of the shelves where we keep the prayer books. It was quite alarming to find what was clearly the result of some cheeky evangelism by some JWs, and it makes you think how much “propaganda” might be lurking in amongst our publications and material in church. Who knows, maybe our Old Testament could be nothing but Jewish scriptures…
Anyway, I quickly removed the material and alerted the church staff. One St Silasite who shall remain unnamed suggested we could burn it at our next Deeper service.
I think they were joking.
Monday July 16 2007 at 6:04 pm |
No way is the Old Testament the Jewish scriptures.
Thursday July 19 2007 at 1:56 pm |
Some Jehova’s Witnesses put some leaflets through our door a while ago. One of our cats, in a piece of no doubt divinely-inspired incontinence, left a steaming pile of pooh on top of them.